West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-11-24
toward her; but she would not even

glance it,
"Will you DO kind enough to let me
get outr said Miss Dennis, in a voice of
scarcely controlled indignation. 'T have
thanked you for your assistance, but I
nave no wish TO know your name, and
certainty none to acquaiut you with
mine"
And, scarcely giving him time 70
descend from the buggy, Violet sprang
past him, ignoring his profrered hand,
and ran toward the gate. Before she
had reached il, however, the words.
''My coat, If you please; excuse my men.
tioning it," checked her, and she was
Obliged TO submit 10 the humiliation of
taking off the big rubber coat, ana
returning it to him. She felt that
he was smiling, but she would not look
ut him. AS the young man received the
coat, he said, gravely,:
Since you decline TO read my name,
must tell it to you. Allow me to intro
duce my 7clf as"
But the young lady had 10y this time
turned her back, and was walking RAPIDLY
toward the house, and he paused alb
ruptly in the utterance of his name. per.
ceiving that she was already out of ear.
shot. He laughed to himself-a laugh
OF genuine amusement-and resumed his
seat in the buggy, seeming in no way dis.
comtted by the treatment he had 70.
ceived.
Miss Dennis, for her part, was thor
oughly mortified aud indignant; but be-
ing sensible girl she reflected that sac
was going back to the city the next morn
ing, and need have no apprehensions for
the future, and so she said nothing oil
her adventure to any one.
Shortly after Miss Dennis's train had
left, next morning, the brown bearded
stranger called at Mrs. Harper's, and &C.
tually had the assurance to ask for Miss
Dennis, in the easiest way in the world,
and offer his card TO be sent up 10 her
But he was informed by the servant that
Miss Dennis had returned to her home in
the city, and 80 he was compelled to re
trace his steps with somewhat detected
and disappointed visage.
Miss Dcnnis's city home was very
elcgantand luxurious one, and on Thanks
giving evening its decorations and fur.
nishlngs were TO bc seen 10 The best advan-
tage, by reason of the splendors OF ghts
and flowers which prevailed everywhere.
There was To be grand family dinner
given In special honor OF n young gentle
man, somewhat distant relation, recent
ly returned from prolonged stay abroad.
lie had landed in America some weeks
back, but was now first come to this his
native city to pay his respects to the
family with due form and ceremony.
Violet was looking her very lovcliest
tonight, in beautiful white silk with
natural flowers, and there was unques-
flonaDly look OF eager anticipation In
the eyes which she constantly turned to-
wards the door.
And there was really sufficient reason
for the heightened color that shone in
her checks to night, for this young cousin,
Arthur Darcy, had been long ago settled
upon, by all the friends of both parties,
as most suitable match for her The
young people were naturally so congenial
| and so drawn 10 each other, that the
thi & would prob lbly have come about
of itself If their kind friends had not been
so obtrusive, and finally reused Miss Den
Mss naughty spirit, so that when young
| Darcy offered himself she said she had
no fancy for ocing married TO order, and
met him with a fiat refusal. StunQ by
! the rejection, Darcy sailed for Europe
Immediately. and il was not until after
he had left that Violet had begun to feel
that, perhaps, she had made a mistake.
She was not n girl to repine, however,
and she was young and ardent and fond
Of society, and she had been a very gay
and popular feature therein during these
| years, but she had never had her heart
so really tolched by any one as it had
| been by the cousin she had by her own
act, banishea. and although she had not
been enough in love to p ne for him, she
felt exhiarated at the thought OF seeing
him again.
When the door opened Mt last and he
came in, looking very quiet and elegant
in his evening dress, with his smooth
sha7cn cheeks and brown mustache and
somewhat bronzed complexion. Violet
thought HIM n good deal changed and
| yet she told him she would have known
him anywhere.
81 was scarcely more than lad when
/ went away" he said "and these are
the years In which man changes most.
You are changed, too, Violet, and for
the better-which you have not had the
grace to say to me. / should have known
| you, OF course; but with you IL is diff
| fcTent. There is an infallibe mark Of
| Identification"
"Ob, you still remember the three little
molcs. do your" said Violet, putting her
white hand up TO her check and laying
her finger upon three tiny dark-brown
spots near the corner Of her right eye
They were no larger than frccklcs, and
as they heightened the effect of her
brilliant complexion, her admirers were
apt TO dwell upon them as one Of her
| chief beauties.
"Of course / remember them" said
Mr.. Darcy, "aDd as they arc ineradicable,
you could never succeed in hiding your
identity from me, il you went to the ends
Of the earth"
There was rather tender intonation
in his voice a. he said this, and Violet
felt her hcarta little stirred by the sound
| of these mi lar tones. They we're
standing apart fora moment, and no one
heard her as she said, playfully:
1T was you who went TO the ends Of
the carth-not l."
at WIS you who sent me, =" ne said,
''and it is you who have brought me
back"
''Not consciously or voluntarily" said
Violet, with a touch Of her old hauteur.
''No unconsciously and involuntari-
ly." he answered. "but surely aud unmis-
fakahly f,,r oit fhof